Building Automation Cable Installation

Building your automation encompasses control systems for buildings in Greater Toronto Area sites, such as security and monitoring (i.e. closed circuit television or CCTV), safety systems such as fire alarm, environmental conditioning systems such as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), and energy management systems such as internal and external lighting. When acting as a contractor for BAS, Installer.ca follows the industry stanard cabling topology, architecture, design, installation practices, test procedures, and coverage areas to support building automation systems (BAS) used in commercial buildings. Since providers of these building automation services had historically specified their own proprietary equipment, cables, interface connections, and topology, this new Standard offered the distinct advantage of being able to support multi-product and multi-vendor environments using one generic structured cabling system.

We also provide “low voltage systems” (e.g., audio/video paging, service/equipment alarms, non-voice/data communications, wireless access points) are also supported by the telecommunications cabling infrastructure requirements of this Standard. Example Low Voltage Applications: Telemetry, Patient Monitoring, CATV, Access control, CCTV, Overhead paging, Lighting, Time & attendance, Nurse call, Infant security, HVAC control, Power monitoring & control, Fire alarm, Security, Wireless, Medical gas and alarms, Staff emergency alarms, Life safety, Intercom, Master synchronous clock

Why Use Structured Cabling for Toronto BAS Applications: eliminates proprietary cabling, redundant pathways reduced, low voltage cabling becomes managed, provides migration path to IP devices, asset control, reduced labor/rapid deployment, MAC costs reduced, supports energy conservation.

Smart Buildings are the ones that use technology to automate the entire operation of building systems to enhance the safety, efficiency and comfort of occupants. There could be as many as 25 subsystems inside the building. A zoned structured cabling design consists of horizontal cables run from the horizontal cross‑connect in the telecommunications room (TR) to zone boxes used to house both BAS connections at horizontal connection points ( HCP’s) and data and voice connections at consolidation point (CP’s). Cables are then patched from the zone box to the equipment and work area outlets.

The benefits of a zoned cabling approach include ease of deployment, the ability to facilitate the use of trunking cables, and improved pathway utilization. With zoned cabling, moves, additions, and changes (MAC work) cost less and are faster and less disruptive in order to support rapid floor space reorganization.

BAS Media

• Primarily supported by Category 5e, Category 6, Category 6A, and Category 7A, copper twisted-pair cabling
• Supports PoE/PoE Plus applications
• Optical fiber solutions may be deployed if consideration is given to the need to power devices
• Better solution: match BAS cabling grade to data cabling grade
• Best solution: use Category 6A F/UTP cabling to support improved heat dissipation and Category 7A to support cable sharing